How it works
Prerequisites
- Go-Shintai and Plaguemaw Beast do not have summoning sickness.
- There and Back Again has exactly two lore counters on it.
Steps
- 1At the beginning of your precombat main phase, There and Back Again triggers, putting a lore counter on it.
- 2There and Back Again's third chapter ability triggers, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again.
- 3When Smaug enters the battlefield, Intruder Alarm triggers, untapping all creatures.
- 4Activate Plaguemaw Beast by tapping it and sacrificing Smaug.
- 5When Smaug dies, it triggers, creating fourteen Treasure tokens.
- 6Holding priority, activate five Treasures by tapping and sacrificing them, adding .
- 7Activate Go-Shintai by paying and tapping it, returning There and Back Again from your graveyard to the battlefield with a lore counter on it.
- 8There and Back Again's first chapter ability triggers, causing the Ring to tempt you.
- 9Resolve the Plaguemaw Beast ability from step 4, putting two lore counters on There and Back Again.
- 10There and Back Again's second and third chapter abilities trigger.
- 11Resolve the second There and Back Again trigger, causing you to search your library for a Mountain and put it onto the battlefield.
- 12Resolve the third There and Back Again trigger, creating a legendary 6/6 Smaug creature token and causing you to sacrifice There and Back Again.
- 13Repeat from step 3.
Commander brackets
In which brackets is this combo allowed, per Spellbook's Exhibition tier?